Word: lauders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which she achieved in 1907, and which consisted mostly of imitations of Harry Lauder. After warming up on Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star...
Sued. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, husband of Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney; by a Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber; for breach of promise; for $500,000. Claimed Divorcee Fogarty: she met Tunney at Hot Springs, Ark., in October 1924; next year, and later still, he "promised to marry her." Claimed Fisticuffer Tunney (at Brioni, Italy): he only knew Mrs. Fogarty slightly; never intimately; never asked her to marry him. "It must be a joke," said he. Developments...
Died. Alexander Melville, of Glasgow, who wrote many of Scotch Comedian Harry Lauder's famed songs ("Killie-crankie," "Tobermory," "Risin' Early in the Mornin' "); in Glasgow. He, liberal, grew poor, lived on the charity of friends...
Died. The Countess of Lauderdale, able miniature painter and socialite of London, Palm Beach and Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland; after a long illness; in Palm Beach...
Will Fyffe, who is the six point capital letter lead this week at the Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly...